Debian bug report logs - #1496 , boring messages ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent to debian-devel@pixar.com: Subject: Bug#1496: dpkg returns to dselect on SIGSTOP Reply-To: Kenny MacDonald , debian-bugs@pixar.com Resent-From: Kenny MacDonald Resent-To: debian-devel@pixar.com Resent-Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 12:33:09 GMT Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk X-Debian-PR-Package: dpkg X-Debian-PR-Keywords: Received: via spool for debian-bugs; Wed, 27 Sep 1995 12:33:09 GMT Received: with rfc822 via encapsulated-mail; Wed, 27 Sep 1995 12:28:01 GMT Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0sxvZ5-000GVUC; Wed, 27 Sep 95 05:26 PDT Received: from briar.glg.ed.ac.uk by pixar.com with SMTP id AA19458 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Wed, 27 Sep 1995 05:26:01 -0700 Received: from gorse.glg.ed.ac.uk (gorse.glg.ed.ac.uk [129.215.164.10]) by briar.glg.ed.ac.uk (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id NAA11070 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 1995 13:25:42 +0100 Received: (kenny@localhost) by gorse.glg.ed.ac.uk (8.6.10/8.6.10) id NAA27517; Wed, 27 Sep 1995 13:25:39 +0100 Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 13:25:39 +0100 Message-Id: <199509271225.NAA27517@gorse.glg.ed.ac.uk> From: Kenny MacDonald To: debian-bugs@pixar.com Package: dpkg Version: 0.9375-0 This happened under .75 and I don't know if it is still a problem under .77. Ian, you'll know if you changed anything about this. I was using dselect for the first time (for real), and it is very, very nice. However, while it was upgrading my bash.deb, it stopped to query about the confile '/etc/profile'. Fair enough, it was different. I chose the 'Z' (?) option to suspend and investigate for myself. dpkg was then stopped, but instead of starting a shell, it returned to the dselect menu, after which I couldn't do anything, as dpkg was locked. I had to quit dselect, manually kill dpkg, find and remove the lock file, and then start dselect again. The good news is that my system survived the whole episode intact! Phew :) Kenny. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent: From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: Kenny MacDonald Subject: Bug#1496: Acknowledgement (was: dpkg returns to dselect on SIGSTOP) In-Reply-To: <199509271225.NAA27517@gorse.glg.ed.ac.uk> References: <199509271225.NAA27517@gorse.glg.ed.ac.uk> Thank you for the problem report you have sent regarding Debian GNU/Linux. This is an automatically generated reply, to let you know your message has been received. It is being forwarded to the developers' mailing list for their attention; they will reply in due course. If you wish to submit further information on your problem, please send it to debian-bugs@pixar.com, but please ensure that the Subject line of your message starts with "Bug#1496" or "Re: Bug#1496" so that we can identify it as relating to the same problem. 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Ian Jackson (maintainer, debian-bugs) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent to debian-devel@pixar.com: Subject: Bug#1496: dpkg returns to dselect on SIGSTOP Reply-To: Ian Jackson , debian-bugs@pixar.com Resent-From: Ian Jackson Resent-To: debian-devel@pixar.com Resent-Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 19:48:07 GMT Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk X-Debian-PR-Package: dpkg X-Debian-PR-Keywords: Received: via spool for debian-bugs; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 19:48:07 GMT Received: with rfc822 via encapsulated-mail; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 19:46:59 GMT Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0syOt1-000AwKC; Thu, 28 Sep 95 12:44 PDT Received: from bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk by pixar.com with SMTP id AA15631 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Thu, 28 Sep 1995 12:43:46 -0700 Received: by bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk (Smail-3.1.29.0 #36) id m0syOrz-000C0CC; Thu, 28 Sep 95 20:43 BST Received: by chiark id (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.33); Thu, 28 Sep 95 20:28 BST Message-Id: Date: Thu, 28 Sep 95 20:28 BST From: Ian Jackson To: debian-bugs@pixar.com Kenny MacDonald writes ("Bug#1496: dpkg returns to dselect on SIGSTOP"): > Package: dpkg > Version: 0.9375-0 > > This happened under .75 and I don't know if it is still a problem > under .77. Ian, you'll know if you changed anything about this. No, I haven't. > I was using dselect for the first time (for real), and it is very, > very nice. However, while it was upgrading my bash.deb, it stopped to > query about the confile '/etc/profile'. Fair enough, it was > different. I chose the 'Z' (?) option to suspend and investigate for > myself. dpkg was then stopped, but instead of starting a shell, it > returned to the dselect menu, after which I couldn't do anything, as > dpkg was locked. I had a bug report like this before. Can you reproduce it ? If you have two .deb files which have different versions of a conffile in it you can keep getting dpkg to prompt by editing the conffile once and then never answering `y' as you install them alternately. I can't reproduce the problem on my system. I've tried it on the console, in an xterm and on a serial terminal running a getty_ps (hacked not to set SIGPIPE to SIG_IGN in the login process); I've tried it with bash and with tcsh. None of these things have been helpful. Is there anything at all odd about your configuration ? What kernel version do you have ? I'm running 1.2.13, but the problem didn't appear with 1.2.10 either. What is /bin/sh on your system ? > I had to quit dselect, manually kill dpkg, find and remove the lock > file, and then start dselect again. The good news is that my system > survived the whole episode intact! Phew :) I should hope it survived the episode. If you find that dselect and/or dpkg don't recover the system properly when they die or are killed then that is a bug - though you may need to reinstall some .deb files to get all the packages in sane and consistent states. Ian. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent: From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: Ian Jackson Subject: Bug#1496: Info received (was Bug#1496: dpkg returns to dselect on SIGSTOP) In-Reply-To: References: Thank you for the additional information you have supplied regarding this problem report. It has been forwarded to the developers to accompany the original report. If you wish to continue to submit further information on your problem, please do the same thing again: send it to debian-bugs@pixar.com, ensuring that the Subject line starts with "Bug#1496" or "Re: Bug#1496" so that we can identify it as relating to the same problem. Please do not reply to the address at the top of this message, unless you wish to report a problem with the bug-tracking system. Ian Jackson (maintainer, debian-bugs) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent to debian-devel@pixar.com: Subject: Bug#1496: dpkg returns to dselect on SIGSTOP Reply-To: Ian Murdock , debian-bugs@pixar.com Resent-From: Ian Murdock Resent-To: debian-devel@pixar.com Resent-Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 22:33:05 GMT Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk X-Debian-PR-Package: dpkg X-Debian-PR-Keywords: Received: via spool for debian-bugs; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 22:33:05 GMT Received: with rfc822 via encapsulated-mail; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 22:20:28 GMT Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0syRIc-000Gd9C; Thu, 28 Sep 95 15:19 PDT Received: from imagine.imaginit.com by pixar.com with SMTP id AA24542 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Thu, 28 Sep 1995 15:19:06 -0700 Received: by imagine.imaginit.com id (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.33); Thu, 28 Sep 95 17:23 EST Message-Id: Date: Thu, 28 Sep 95 17:23 EST From: Ian Murdock To: debian-bugs@pixar.com In-Reply-To: (message from Ian Jackson on Thu, 28 Sep 95 20:28 BST) Date: Thu, 28 Sep 95 20:28 BST From: Ian Jackson > I was using dselect for the first time (for real), and it is very, > very nice. However, while it was upgrading my bash.deb, it stopped to > query about the confile '/etc/profile'. Fair enough, it was > different. I chose the 'Z' (?) option to suspend and investigate for > myself. dpkg was then stopped, but instead of starting a shell, it > returned to the dselect menu, after which I couldn't do anything, as > dpkg was locked. I had a bug report like this before. Can you reproduce it ? If you have two .deb files which have different versions of a conffile in it you can keep getting dpkg to prompt by editing the conffile once and then never answering `y' as you install them alternately. Were you doing this in the dselect automatically started after installing the base system? In this case, dselect is started from a shell script (namely, /root/.bash_profile). Could this be the problem? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent: From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: Ian Murdock Subject: Bug#1496: Info received (was Bug#1496: dpkg returns to dselect on SIGSTOP) In-Reply-To: References: Thank you for the additional information you have supplied regarding this problem report. It has been forwarded to the developers to accompany the original report. If you wish to continue to submit further information on your problem, please do the same thing again: send it to debian-bugs@pixar.com, ensuring that the Subject line starts with "Bug#1496" or "Re: Bug#1496" so that we can identify it as relating to the same problem. Please do not reply to the address at the top of this message, unless you wish to report a problem with the bug-tracking system. Ian Jackson (maintainer, debian-bugs) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent to debian-devel@pixar.com: Subject: Bug#1496: dpkg returns to dselect on SIGSTOP Reply-To: Bruce Perens , debian-bugs@pixar.com Resent-From: Bruce Perens Resent-To: debian-devel@pixar.com Resent-Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 23:33:02 GMT Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk X-Debian-PR-Package: dpkg X-Debian-PR-Keywords: Received: via spool for debian-bugs; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 23:33:02 GMT Received: with rfc822 via encapsulated-mail; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 23:28:14 GMT Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0sySMB-000FUpC; Thu, 28 Sep 95 16:27 PDT Received: from mongo.pixar.com by pixar.com with SMTP id AA27605 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for bruce@mongo.pixar.com); Thu, 28 Sep 1995 16:26:54 -0700 Received: by mongo.pixar.com (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0sySL5-000FHYC; Thu, 28 Sep 95 16:26 PDT Message-Id: X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.2 7/18/95 To: Ian Murdock , debian-bugs@Pixar.com Cc: bruce@Pixar.com, iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 28 Sep 1995 17:23:00 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 16:26:03 -0700 From: Bruce Perens imurdock@debian.org said: > Were you doing this in the dselect automatically started after > installing the base system? In this case, dselect is started from a > shell script (namely, /root/.bash_profile). Could this be the > problem? Does dpkg attempt to suspend itself rather than fork off a shell? That would certainly break in this case. Probably we need a flag to dpkg/dselect to change this behavior. Bruce -- -- Attention Radio Amateurs: For information on "Linux for Hams", -- read the WWW page http://www.hams.com/LinuxForHams, -- or e-mail the word "help" to info@hams.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent: From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: Bruce Perens Subject: Bug#1496: Info received (was Bug#1496: dpkg returns to dselect on SIGSTOP) In-Reply-To: References: Thank you for the additional information you have supplied regarding this problem report. It has been forwarded to the developers to accompany the original report. If you wish to continue to submit further information on your problem, please do the same thing again: send it to debian-bugs@pixar.com, ensuring that the Subject line starts with "Bug#1496" or "Re: Bug#1496" so that we can identify it as relating to the same problem. Please do not reply to the address at the top of this message, unless you wish to report a problem with the bug-tracking system. Ian Jackson (maintainer, debian-bugs) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent to debian-devel@pixar.com: Subject: Bug#1496: dpkg returns to dselect on SIGSTOP Reply-To: Ian Jackson , debian-bugs@pixar.com Resent-From: Ian Jackson Resent-To: debian-devel@pixar.com Resent-Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 07:03:03 GMT Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk X-Debian-PR-Package: dpkg X-Debian-PR-Keywords: Received: via spool for debian-bugs; Fri, 29 Sep 1995 07:03:03 GMT Received: with rfc822 via encapsulated-mail; Fri, 29 Sep 1995 06:55:40 GMT Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0syUnc-000GYsC; Thu, 28 Sep 95 19:03 PDT Received: from bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk by pixar.com with SMTP id AA05453 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Thu, 28 Sep 1995 19:03:22 -0700 Received: by bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk (Smail-3.1.29.0 #36) id m0syUnO-000BzrC; Fri, 29 Sep 95 03:03 BST Received: by chiark id (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.33); Fri, 29 Sep 95 02:59 BST Message-Id: Date: Fri, 29 Sep 95 02:59 BST From: Ian Jackson To: debian-bugs@pixar.com Ian Murdock writes ("Bug#1496: dpkg returns to dselect on SIGSTOP"): > Date: Thu, 28 Sep 95 20:28 BST > From: Ian Jackson > > > I was using dselect for the first time (for real), and it is very, > > very nice. However, while it was upgrading my bash.deb, it stopped to > > query about the confile '/etc/profile'. Fair enough, it was > > different. I chose the 'Z' (?) option to suspend and investigate for > > myself. dpkg was then stopped, but instead of starting a shell, it > > returned to the dselect menu, after which I couldn't do anything, as > > dpkg was locked. > > I had a bug report like this before. Can you reproduce it ? If you > have two .deb files which have different versions of a conffile in it > you can keep getting dpkg to prompt by editing the conffile once and > then never answering `y' as you install them alternately. > > Were you doing this in the dselect automatically started after > installing the base system? In this case, dselect is started from a > shell script (namely, /root/.bash_profile). Could this be the > problem? Aaah, the light dawns. Ooops. Ian M.: please arrange for the environment variable "DPKG_NO_TSTP" to be set to some non-empty value (like "yes") when dselect is invoked in this way. This will cause dpkg to invoke "$SHELL -i" instead (or "sh -i" if SHELL isn't set). This feature will be in 0.93.79. Of course, any conffiles prompts at this stage reflect bugs in the base disks. Ian. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent: From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: Ian Jackson Subject: Bug#1496: Info received (was Bug#1496: dpkg returns to dselect on SIGSTOP) In-Reply-To: References: Thank you for the additional information you have supplied regarding this problem report. It has been forwarded to the developers to accompany the original report. If you wish to continue to submit further information on your problem, please do the same thing again: send it to debian-bugs@pixar.com, ensuring that the Subject line starts with "Bug#1496" or "Re: Bug#1496" so that we can identify it as relating to the same problem. Please do not reply to the address at the top of this message, unless you wish to report a problem with the bug-tracking system. Ian Jackson (maintainer, debian-bugs) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent to debian-devel@pixar.com: Subject: Bug#1496: dpkg returns to dselect on SIGSTOP Reply-To: Ian Jackson , debian-bugs@pixar.com Resent-From: Ian Jackson Resent-To: debian-devel@pixar.com Resent-Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 02:48:04 GMT Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk X-Debian-PR-Package: dpkg X-Debian-PR-Keywords: Received: via spool for debian-bugs; Sun, 29 Oct 1995 02:48:04 GMT Received: with rfc822 via encapsulated-mail; Sun, 29 Oct 1995 02:37:08 GMT Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0t9NbS-0003btC; Sat, 28 Oct 95 19:36 PDT Received: from artemis.chu.cam.ac.uk by pixar.com with SMTP id AA12330 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Sat, 28 Oct 1995 19:35:38 -0700 Received: from chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk by artemis.chu.cam.ac.uk with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #33) id m0t9NbO-0007uQC; Sun, 29 Oct 95 02:36 GMT Received: by chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk id m0t9NbK-0002bdC (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.33); Sun, 29 Oct 95 02:35 GMT Message-Id: Date: Sun, 29 Oct 95 02:35 GMT From: Ian Jackson To: debian-bugs@pixar.com In-Reply-To: <23276931@toto.iv> Some time ago I asked: > Ian M.: please arrange for the environment variable "DPKG_NO_TSTP" to > be set to some non-empty value (like "yes") when dselect is invoked in > this way. This will cause dpkg to invoke "$SHELL -i" instead (or "sh > -i" if SHELL isn't set). > > This feature will be in 0.93.79. > > Of course, any conffiles prompts at this stage reflect bugs in the > base disks. I'm going to reassign this bug to the base package. Bruce: if this feature is now used (and if there are no conffiles prompts), could you close it ? Thanks, Ian. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent: From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: Ian Jackson Subject: Bug#1496: Info received (was Bug#1496: dpkg returns to dselect on SIGSTOP) In-Reply-To: References: Thank you for the additional information you have supplied regarding this problem report. It has been forwarded to the developers to accompany the original report. If you wish to continue to submit further information on your problem, please do the same thing again: send it to debian-bugs@pixar.com, ensuring that the Subject line starts with "Bug#1496" or "Re: Bug#1496" so that we can identify it as relating to the same problem. Please do not reply to the address at the top of this message, unless you wish to report a problem with the bug-tracking system. Ian Jackson (maintainer, debian-bugs) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message received at debian-bugs-request: From chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk!ian Sat Oct 28 19:44:14 1995 Return-Path: Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0t9NjK-000DGfC; Sat, 28 Oct 95 19:44 PDT Received: from artemis.chu.cam.ac.uk by pixar.com with SMTP id AA12591 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-request-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Sat, 28 Oct 1995 19:43:47 -0700 Received: from chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk by artemis.chu.cam.ac.uk with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #33) id m0t9NjF-0007uRC; Sun, 29 Oct 95 02:44 GMT Received: by chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk id m0t9NjB-0002baC (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.33); Sun, 29 Oct 95 02:44 GMT Message-Id: Date: Sun, 29 Oct 95 02:44 GMT From: Ian Jackson To: Debian bugs mailserver Subject: various non-dpkg bugs reassign 1647 texbin reassign 1496 (base) reassign 1511 (ftp.debian.org) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Jackson / iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk , with the debian-bugs tracking mechanism This page last modified 07:43:01 GMT Wed 01 Nov